31.   In Britain, single motherhood has become a political football.

32.   It is a process of political manufacturing that Washington seems to have perfected, the taking of a simple, transparently righteous issue and turning into a political football.

33.   It is a political football in a game with constantly moving goal posts.

34.   It was Clinton who put the political football into play on Tuesday during a Rose Garden ceremony honoring teachers.

35.   It must not be a political football.

36.   Jackson said that for too long the state treated the holiday as a political football rather than a moral imperative.

37.   Meanwhile, the investigation of the files continued to be tossed around like a political football.

38.   Now the measure, long a political football in Congress, has a new chance at life when the House takes it up again in early May.

39.   Reform, in short, is turning into a political football.

40.   Rohatyn declined to become the political football du jour, and withdrew.